Humza Yousaf was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Justice in June 2018, with responsibility for police, courts, sentencing, justice system and criminal law procedure, violence reduction, criminal justice social work, victims, witnesses, female offenders, human rights, prisons and prisoners, reducing reoffending, security and youth justice.
He was born in Glasgow on April 7, 1985. He was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School and the University of Glasgow, graduating with a degree in Politics. He is also an alumnus of the US State Department's prestigious International Visitor Learning Programme.

He went on to work in the Scottish Parliament as an aide to the late Bashir Ahmad MSP. He was a Parliamentary Liaison Officer to former First Minister Alex Salmond MSP and was elected as an MSP for the Glasgow region in May 2011. He was appointed Minister for External Affairs and International Development in September 2012. Humza Yousaf was appointed Minister for Transport and the Islands in May 2016.

Martin Dorchester became Chief Executive of includem in March 2018. Previously Martin was the Group Chief Executive of the David MacBrayne Group, including CALMAC Ferries, Argyll Ferries Ltd and Solent Gateway.

In a career spanning 30 years Martin has operated nationally and internationally with organisations covering logistics, technology and finance. As CEO of Dixon's B2B operation Martin built up the largest Apple reseller business in the UK as well as developing a £100m public sector business. Martin was part of the team that brought the 5 radio authorities together to create Ofcom and worked with the London Borough of Hackney on developing its infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics. Martin is also a keen lecturer and academic and has written a number of papers covering areas as diverse as CSR and Emotional Intelligence in Management Development and more recently on children and young people.

Martin is a Co-chair of the Independent Care Review and a Non-executive Director of CCPS. He has held a number of non-executive roles including: Non-executive Director of Traveline Scotland, The Sailors' Orphan Society of Scotland and most recently Transport for Wales. He is a supporter of Social and Community Business and Chaired Firstport Ltd, a start-up funding organisation for social enterprises.

For the last eight years of policing career he was a Chief Inspector and a key member of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit. Respected across the world for its work in reducing violence, this innovative organisation brought a new approach to an age-old problem.  It was during this time that Graham was able to put right what had become an occurring issue for him during his policing career. Often, when interviewing people who had witnessed abuse and violence, Graham was met with the words, “I knew something was going to happen”.  His work within the unit supported him to develop approaches and programmes that help create conditions where good people can do good things when faced with challenging situations.

Graham is a passionate advocate of the bystander approach to help develop personal and organisational leadership to help create safe and supportive learning environments, workplaces and performance teams.   All of these environments face challenges which, if unchecked, can impact detrimentally on performance and reputation.  Empowering individuals within these settings to act, presents a great opportunity for any business, school, university or sports team to maintain focus on values and goals.  As they say the team that collectively is heading in the same direction will be the successful team.

Graham has delivered bystander prevention trainings in many different settings including high schools, colleges universities, in work places, in prisons, with military and police and with professional and amateur sports in the UK and United States.  Graham has worked with many different individuals and groups using bystander activities to develop personal leadership.  Graham has worked with hairdressers, dentists, vets, fire officers, police & prison officers, bar & security staff, the military as well as in local communities.

In addition, Graham has conducted numerous trainings and keynote speeches in Scotland, England, Wales, Sweden, and in the United States.  In addition to conducting bystander trainings, Graham has expert knowledge and experience in embedding violence prevention programmes within local government.  He has been able to build sustainable models for the longer term.

Graham holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice Studies and a Certificate in Training from Napier University, Edinburgh.  He lives in the Scottish Borders with his wife Allie and their dachshund Dolly.

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Jane plays a key role in the Care Inspectorate’s strategic response to justice services.  She leads a strategic scrutiny team providing assurance about the efficiency and effectiveness of justice services across the country and advises the chief inspector and senior leadership team on justice matters.  Over the past two years the team has undertaken inspections of justice social work services, in five local authority areas, focussing on Community Payback Orders, as well as leading supported and validated self-evaluations with five Community Justice Partnerships, working in collaboration with HMICS.  Professionals from the justice sector make an important contribution to the work of the team by acting as Associates or Local File Readers.  People With Lived Experience of the justice system are also making an important contribution to shaping how we work. The Care Inspectorate is committed to supporting and driving continuous improvement and raising awareness of the difference justice services make to the lives of individuals, families and communities affected by offending.  The team also lead on providing guidance for, and undertaking quality assurance of, Serious Incident Reviews.

Qualified in both Youth & Community Education and Social Work, including an MSc in Advanced Studies in Criminal Justice Social Work Jane began her career in 1988 in what were then known as IT projects, offering alternatives to care and custody for children and young people in the South of England. She then spent a number of years working with a community-based youth project in Leith, Edinburgh.  Prior to joining the Care Inspectorate in 2015 Jane had spent the previous 18 years as a Criminal Justice Social Worker and manager in the South East and North of Scotland.

Karyn leads the Community Justice Scotland team and has overall responsibility for raising awareness of the value that community justice brings to individuals and communities. Her aim is to provide leadership in a highly complex sector that covers multiple professional and organisational operating environments. She also ensures that our team supports and challenges our partners by promoting new ways of working that can improve service delivery and create better outcomes for individuals and society.

Karyn trained as a nurse, and then in psychology. She spent 21 years working with the police and helped establish the Violence Reduction Unit in 2003 with a Public Health approach to preventing violence. She is a member of the WHO Violence Prevention Alliance and also helped set up the Medics Against Violence charity in Scotland, which speak to school children about violence reduction, injury and keeping safe.

She has also previously developed a plan to tackle violence for the Metropolitan Police and has published work on Armed Robbery teams, Alcohol and Violence Interventions in a clinical setting and Violence Reduction. In addition, Karyn is a Non-Executive Director at Scottish Professional Football League and a board member of Simon Community Scotland and the Centre for Justice Innovation.

John joined the RAF with a permanent commission in 1974 after graduation from Heriot Watt University with a very ordinary degree in General Science. He joined the RAF Regiment after a brief spell as aircrew and was formally trained in leadership at the RAF College Cranwell and the School of Infantry, Warminster.

He learnt about practical leadership with operational tours in Northern Ireland, Germany, Falkland Islands (post conflict) and Belize. For the last 5 years he was in MoD London where he instigated and led on a major change on operational and associated strategic capability moving from the Cold War European theatre to Expeditionary Operations such as the eventual Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He achieved this despite considerable resistance within the hierarchy.

In 1991 he took voluntary redundancy in the rank of Squadron Leader. He joined SCTD which was a small business systems consultancy with ex-military personnel who had all had MoD experience on large change projects. He was the Lead Designer for a civilian contract to upgrade ground defence following the lessons of the 1st Gulf war across the RAF. He designed and project managed a 10-hour computer-based training system for computerised signalling on the railways. He undertook a major study at Heartlands Hospital Trust of learning systems aligned to emerging needs within the Trust.

In 1994 her returned to Scotland and was appointed as the Group Training Manager for the Miller Group. He was part of the Executive Team that led on cultural change away from adversarial working towards collaboration across the supply chains. He designed and ran a 5-day leadership programme for 544 managers and 64 directors as part of this programme.

In 1991 he left Miller to set up his own business called Tern Business Systems Design Ltd. He worked with Investors in People Scotland for 18 years. For the last 6 of these he led on assessment for IIP International that gave him experience of global corporations. In this time, he worked with Control Risks for 6 months on a project to build security capability for Aramco assets across the Kingdom of Saudi against increasing terrorist threats. He designed a course for oil and gas executives in Indonesia on survey techniques coordinating the input from industry specialists. He worked closely with Steve Bell, Director of Scotland Healthy Working Lives to establish project management techniques from Scottish Government strategy on well-being. For 4 years he ran project management workshops for non-project managers across the NHS in Scotland through the Institute of Healthcare Management Scotland.

In 2015 he started collaboration with the Scottish Building Federation on the Construction Leadership Framework (CLF), then the Scottish Construction Pathway (SCP) for ex-offenders to gain employment in the sector. He is now working closely with Ian Honeyman, SBF Commercial Director on the “Beyond Recovery” programme amalgamating this research and taking into account the effect of Covid on the industry in Scotland and our communities.

The presentation he is sharing with on the 11 February comes from this work on “Beyond Recovery”